derisively

== English == === Etymology === From derisive +‎ -ly. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈɹaɪsɪvli/, /dɪˈɹɪzɪvli/ Hyphenation: de‧ri‧sive‧ly === Adverb === derisively (comparative more derisively, superlative most derisively) In a derisive manner; demeaningly, mockingly. 1789, George Campbell, The Four Gospels, Translated from the Greek. With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. [...] In Two Volumes, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC; republished as “Art. IX. Dr. Campbell on the Four Gospels. [Article concluded.] Dissertation XII.”, in The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume II, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T. Becket, in Pall Mall, August 1790, →OCLC, page 411: As ſometimes, with us, a queſtion is put deriſively, in the form of an aſſertion, when the propoſer conceives, as ſeems to have happened here, ſome abſurdity in the thing, I thought it beſt, after the example of ſo many Lat[in] interpreters, to adopt the equivocal, or rather the oblique, form of the original expreſſion. The ambiguity is not real, but apparent. ==== Synonyms ==== demeaningly mockingly ==== Related terms ==== derision derisive derisiveness ==== Translations ====